Eternal Holy Emperor

In this life, Ye Chen was actually born with an Innate Saint Body.

After learning this news, even as someone who had lived twice as a human, he was astonished. Only after feeling the familiar origin power hidden deep within his blood did he finally confirm it.

Then, on his youthful and delicate sixteen-year-old face, a radiant and sunny expression suddenly blossomed.

Heaven truly favored him.

In his previous life, he had nearly died. This life, heaven had returned to him a physical body of an Innate Saint Body.

The so-called Innate Saint Body referred to a Combat Saint Body born innately.

In fact, for ordinary cultivators on the general cultivation level, the Combat Saint Body might seem quite unfamiliar, oblivious to it. But upon entering a certain realm of cultivation, one would truly come into contact with all sorts of information about the Combat Saint Body, which invariably revealed the heaven-defying aspects of this physique.

What is a Combat Saint Body?

In the vast world, across Heavenly and Myriads of Realms, billions of life forms exist, with endless races, each able to give rise to various special and powerful physiques.

Those who possess these physiques are naturally stronger and more talented than other cultivators.

Each of these special physiques is powerful and exceeds normal humans from birth. Generally speaking, it's difficult to determine who is stronger or weaker among them, and only through direct combat can the truth be revealed.

However, there are always a few physiques that stand at the very pinnacle among the thousands of powerful bodies, revering across the Ten Thousand Domains, and throughout the endless ages, there has never been anyone who could shake their status.

The Combat Saint Body was definitely one of them.

This physique, rare in the entire world, once grown, would surely be invincible!

In his previous life, the reason he was able to reign supreme and push across the Three Thousand Realms without any adversaries was largely due to the Combat Saint Body.

Once the Combat Saint Body reached completion, it was an Immortal Golden Body, indestructible through endless calamities.

However, it's worth mentioning that unlike other powerful physiques that were born innately and innate to life, the Combat Saint Body was evolved and refined through constant postnatal cultivation as the strongest combat body.

The prerequisite was to obtain the inheritance of a Combat Saint, cultivate the Combat Saint Technique, and then could one refine the Combat Saint Body. Otherwise, there was no other way to cultivate it successfully, and only one person per generation could achieve it.

And such an inheritance could only be obtained by earning the recognition of the previous generation of Combat Saints.

In his last life, Ye Chen was a Combat Saint of that generation, cultivated to become a Combat Saint body, known as the Combat Saint King.

However, in the many years of his past life's understanding, he never knew anyone who was born with an Innate Saint Body; perhaps only the progenitor of the Combat Saint lineage was.

Now, he was pleasantly surprised to discover that in this life, reincarnated, he possessed the physique of an Innate Saint Body.

Once this physique was fully awakened, it would possess endless Divine Power, an Immortal Golden Body, unrivaled across the Ten Thousand Domains.

Moreover, an Innate Saint Body was perhaps even more terrifying than a Combat Saint Body cultivated later, possessing even greater potential.

This made him extremely delighted, having originally thought he needed to strive again in cultivation, reach the Martial God Realm, and spend a great deal of effort to refine a Combat Saint Body. Now, it seemed all this was unnecessary.

Because he was an Innate Saint Body, simply awakening the Holy Body Bloodline would allow him to directly become a Combat Saint Body.

Moreover, he was confident that he could return to his peak state from his past life in a shorter time.

He suspected that the birth of his Innate Saint Body might relate to his parents or even his entire family.

Because other than the speculative progenitor of the Combat Saint lineage, no one was truly an Innate Saint Body in ancient and modern times.

But from his memory, it seemed there had never been any supremely eminent figures born in his entire family; it looked like he would need to ask his father, the Family Head.

Taking a deep breath, ultimately he was a person who had lived through two lifetimes, Ye Chen forcefully restrained the boiling excitement in his heart and calmed down.

Because he deeply understood, even if it was an Innate Saint Body, if the bloodline potential was not awakened, it was as good as useless.

If a regular person had an Innate Saint Body, it would be useless too, because, without a specific Cultivation Technique, it would be difficult to awaken the bloodline of the Holy Body, let alone become powerful and embark on a path against the heavens.

Only by obtaining the Combat Saint Technique could one awaken and strengthen the Holy Body Bloodline, because it was a Supreme Method created specifically for the Combat Saint Body.

Ye Chen was very fortunate. In his past life, he was a Combat Saint, had obtained the inheritance of this lineage—even though he perished in his previous life, memories about the inheritance were never lost, deeply engraved in the depths of his soul.

With limitless excitement, Ye Chen found a particularly secluded courtyard within the mansion.

It was a courtyard with red brick and green tiles, featuring a rockery and a small bridge over flowing water—the epitome of luxury. Normally, only the most important members of the family could reside here, but it had been neglected and overgrown with weeds for years, and was now abandoned.

Because someone had once died there, and it was haunted, at one time the entire City Lord Mansion was in a state of panic, which made this place extraordinarily quiet and gloomy. On a normal day, no one would enter, and even the servants would avoid it by a wide berth.

However, such a quiet courtyard was exactly what Ye Chen wanted.

He sat quietly in the house, cross-legged, his eyes slightly closed. He sighed softly and attempted to practice the Mystical Skill Heart Method of the Combat Saint lineage.

The Combat Saint Technique, created specifically for the Combat Saint Body as a Supreme Profound Technique, could also activate the Holy Body Bloodline.

However, since the Combat Saint Technique was too overbearing, Ye Chen did not dare to use it fully and could only start from the very initial part.

The moment he started the Mystical Technique, Ye Chen felt all the blood in his body boil instantly, with a powerful force emerging that was indescribable. It was as though a terrifying ancient fierce beast that had been dormant inside him was now awakening.

Boom—

A terrifying loud noise erupted, and dazzling golden light spilled out from his body and exploded completely, a brilliant and eye-catching blaze of radiance in an instant.

An extremely terrifying force burst out instantly, destroying everything within ten yards of Ye Chen at the center; the entire house collapsed with a thunderous crash.

Almost simultaneously, Ye Chen's body was thrown backward, and he fell onto the ground more than ten meters away. Blood continuously seeped from his pores, staining his clothes red.

It was only after a long while that Ye Chen slowly rose from the ground, his entire body spreading with intense pain. He couldn't help but inhale sharply due to the pain, his face pale and his forehead covered in cold sweat.

For just now, thirty-one of his bones had fractured, and countless muscles had been torn apart.

Even a slight movement now spread a pain intense enough to make any ordinary person faint.

This was the price of forcibly using the Combat Saint Technique, which had caused him to suffer severe injuries.

"As expected of the most overbearing Combat Saint Technique. Even with an Innate Saint Body, it would be torn apart if the conditions are not met sufficiently."

Ye Chen gave a bitter smile. The Combat Saint Technique was known as the supreme combat method, and only a true Combat Saint Body could cultivate it.

Because it was a Supreme Method specifically created to condense the strongest physique, the Combat Saint Body, only a truly strong Physical Body could cultivate it, otherwise, if the body's strength was not up to the conditions, forcibly using the Combat Saint Technique would turn the method not into a cultivation technique, but a murderous demon. The overbearing method would instantly shred the cultivator's body, pulverizing it completely, annihilating both form and spirit.

Even though he was an Innate Saint Body in this life, the bloodline had not yet awakened, and his body was not strong enough to bear the operation of the Combat Saint Technique.

Luckily, he had only operated the very initial part of the scriptures, and perhaps because he was an Innate Saint Body, otherwise the tyrannical nature of the Mystical Technique would have torn him apart instantly.

However, it had also cost him nearly a fatal injury.

Ye Chen lay on the dusty ground, covered in blood, his bones shattered and flesh torn, finding it very difficult to even move, silently regretting his carelessness.

This time it was merely a fluke, but if he forcibly used the technique again, it could truly end up shattering his body completely, and this was no joke.

But now the problem was, he was injured all over and could hardly move.

At this point, Ye Chen had no solution, as he was not in his former life where he could recover instantly, and with low cultivation, he could not use the Unparalleled Divine Power from his memory.

He could probably only wait to be discovered by others, otherwise it would be troublesome in the long run.

Buzz—

Suddenly, a mysterious moon-shaped seal appeared on Ye Chen's forehead, emitting circles of misty light, covering his whole body and bringing forth a mysterious power.

Crackle—

Visible to the naked eye, the injuries on Ye Chen's body began to heal at an astonishing speed.

In just a moment, Ye Chen, who had been badly injured by the backlash of the Combat Saint Technique, had completely recovered.

As Ye Chen stared in astonishment, a sphere of light suddenly flew out of the Moon Seal, and after the light dissipated, a delicate and small tower appeared, with a misty radiance, spinning in front of him.

"Trialist appeared, True Throne owner Qian Yue, eligible for the Emperor's Trial."

"Emperor's Trial, would you like to start?"